In a true celebration of the voice, the London A Cappella Festival offers an exceptional opportunity to experience the very best vocal talent from across the globe. Welcoming international headliners and industry experts in a star-studded line-up, the festival schedule is bursting with performances, workshops, showcases, talks and free interactive events.

E.V.A. ambassador for The Netherlands, Joep Hopstaken, born in Tilburg and singer in dutch vocal groups VPS KeK and ZiPPA, reports from the Dutch vocal delta. His third contribution is Inspired by Inspiration Days.

EVA’s Florian Städtler had the opportunity to Skype-talk with Tobias Hug, Artistic Director of Vocalmente, the rather new (2015 is the festival’s second edition) Italian flagship festival in Fossano.

Learn all about the programme, the fantastic line-up (including FORK, Level Eleven, Neri Per Caso, The Junction…to name a few), the workshops and additional events scheduled from 27th to 30th of August 2015.

The fourth LEOsings session took place in Freiburg, Germany on March 5th-8th 2015. Entitled “Cooperation and Networks in European Vocal Music”, it focused on how singers, singing teachers, choir conductors and vocal music organizers can improve the framework for singing, teaching and marketing choir and a cappella music based on the infrastructure and the ideas that have already been out there.

From the insight that giving people the opportunity to meet peers from different cultures and countries helps to improve the quality and mutual understanding, experts from five countries and eight partners have joined in the two-year cooperation project “LEOsings!”.

It feels almost surreal: this autumn my vocal group Ensemble Norma celebrated it's 10 Year Anniversary! The group that started as a high school project with (I happily admit) more enthusiasm than knowledge or skill, has developed into a skilled and powerful instrument with the five of us being professional musicians with a cappella as our shared passion.